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Paterson, New Jersey
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Paterson is the largest city in and the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 146,199, Paterson has the second-highest density of any U. S. city with over 100,000 people, behind only New York City. For 2015, the Census Bureaus Population Estimates Program calculated a population of 147,754, Paterson is known as the Silk City for its dominant role in silk production during the latter half of the 19th century. The city has evolved into a major destination for Hispanic emigrants as well as for immigrants from the Arab. It has the second-largest Muslim population in the United States by percentage, the area of Paterson was inhabited by the Algonquian-speaking Native American Acquackanonk tribe of the Lenape, referred to as the Delaware Indians. The land was known as the Lenapehoking, the Dutch claimed the land as New Netherlands, then the British as the Province of New Jersey. Paterson, which was founded by the society, became the cradle of the revolution in America. Paterson was named for William Paterson, statesman, signer of the Constitution, architect, engineer and city planner Pierre Charles LEnfant, who had earlier developed the initial plans for Washington, D. C. was the first planner for the S. U. M. His plan proposed to harness the power of the Great Falls through a channel in the rock, eventually Colts system developed some problems and a scheme resembling LEnfants original plan was used after 1846. Paterson was originally formed as a township from portions of Acquackanonk Township on April 11,1831, Paterson became part of newly created Passaic County on February 7,1837. It was incorporated as a city on April 14,1851, the city was reincorporated on March 14,1861. In the latter half of the 19th century silk production became the dominant industry and formed the basis of Patersons most prosperous period, in 1835 Samuel Colt began producing firearms in Paterson, although within a few years he moved his business to Hartford, Connecticut. Later in the 19th century Paterson was the site of experiments with submarines by Irish-American inventor John Philip Holland. Two of Hollands early models — one found at the bottom of the Passaic River — are on display in the Paterson Museum, housed in the former Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works near the Passaic Falls. The city was a mecca for immigrant laborers who worked in its factories and it was defeated by the employers, with workers forced to return under pre-strike conditions. Factory workers labored long hours for low wages under dangerous conditions, the factories then moved to the South, where there were no labor unions, and still later moved overseas. In 1919 Paterson was one of eight locations bombed by self-identified anarchists, in 1932 Paterson opened Hinchliffe Stadium, a 10, 000-seat stadium named in honor of John V. Hinchliffe, the citys mayor at the time. Hinchliffe Stadium originally served as the site for school and professional athletic events

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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate

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Soap opera
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A soap opera, soap, or soapie, is a serial drama on television or radio that examines the lives of many characters, usually focusing on emotional relationships to the point of melodrama. The term soap opera originated from such dramas being typically sponsored by soap manufacturers in the past, the first serial considered to be a soap opera was Painted Dreams, which debuted on October 20,1930 on Chicago radio station WGN. The first nationally broadcast radio soap opera was Clara, Lu, and Em, a crucial element that defines the soap opera is the open-ended serial nature of the narrative, with stories spanning several episodes. One of the features that makes a television program a soap opera. While Spanish language telenovelas are sometimes called soap operas, telenovelas have conflicts that get resolved, but with soap operas each episode ends with a promise that the storyline is to be continued in another episode. You spend more time even with the characters, the apparent villains grow less apparently villainous. Soap opera storylines run concurrently, intersect and lead into further developments, each episode may feature some of the shows current storylines, but not always all of them. Soap operas rarely bring all the current storylines to a conclusion at the same time, when one storyline ends, there are several other story threads at differing stages of development. Soap opera episodes typically end on some sort of cliffhanger, evening soap operas and those that air at a rate of one episode per week are more likely to feature the entire cast in each episode, and to represent all current storylines in each episode. Evening soap operas and serials that run for only part of the year tend to bring things to a dramatic end-of-season cliffhanger, the article explained that at that time, many prime time series lost money, while daytime serials earned profits several times more than their production costs. Fitting in with these characteristics, most soap operas follow the lives of a group of characters who live or work in a particular place, the storylines follow the day-to-day activities and personal relationships of these characters. These elements may be found across the gamut of soap operas, Due to the prominence of English-language television, most soap-operas are completely English. In many soap operas, in particular daytime serials in the US, Soap operas from the United Kingdom and Australia tend to focus on more everyday characters and situations, and are frequently set in working class environments. Many of the soaps produced in two countries explore social realist storylines such as family discord, marriage breakdown or financial problems. This diverges from US soap operas where such comedy is rare, UK soap operas frequently make a claim to presenting reality or purport to have a realistic style. Romance, secret relationships, extramarital affairs, and genuine hate have been the basis for many soap opera storylines, in US daytime serials, the most popular soap opera characters, and the most popular storylines, often involved a romance of the sort presented in paperback romance novels. Crimes such as kidnapping, rape, and even murder may go unpunished if the perpetrator is to be retained in the ongoing story, Australian and UK soap operas also feature a significant proportion of romance storylines. In Russia, most popular serials explore the romantic quality of criminal and/or oligarch life, in soap opera storylines, previously unknown children, siblings and twins of established characters often emerge to upset and reinvigorate the set of relationships examined by the series

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One Life to Live
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Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature ethnically and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social issues. One Life to Live was expanded from 30 minutes to 45 minutes on July 26,1976, One Life to Live heavily focuses on the members and relationships of the Lord family. In 2002, the series won an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series, One Life to Live was the last American daytime soap opera taped in New York City. After nearly 43 years on the air, ABC canceled One Life to Live on April 14,2011. On July 7,2011, production company Prospect Park announced that it would continue the show as a web series after its run on ABC, but later suspended the project. The show taped its final scenes for ABC on November 18,2011, on January 7,2013, Prospect Park resumed its plan to continue One Life to Live as a daily 30-minute web series on Hulu and iTunes via The Online Network. The relaunched series premiered on April 29,2013, the new series was plagued with several behind-the-scenes problems, most notably a litigation between Prospect Park and ABC regarding the misuse of One Life to Live characters on General Hospital. On September 3,2013, Prospect Park suspended production of the series until the lawsuit with ABC was resolved, impressed with the ratings success of NBCs Another World, ABC sought out Another World writer Nixon to create a serial for them. One Life to Live would emphasize the ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of the characters in its fictional setting, Nixon would go on to create All My Children in 1970 and Loving in 1983. One Life to Lives first sponsor was the Colgate-Palmolive company, who also sponsored The Doctors, ABC bought the show from Nixon in December 1974 when they purchased all stock to her Creative Horizons, Inc. The show was originally a half-hour serial until it was expanded to 45 minutes on July 23,1976, One Life to Live is set in the fictional city of Llanview, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Long-suffering heroine Viki weathered love and loss, widowhood, rape, divorce, stroke, and breast cancer, Viki also had heart problems and received a transplant from her dying husband Ben Davidson. Featured male protagonist Dr. Larry Wolek also appeared at the episode and for 36 years. The 1980s brought great success and rose to prominence Vikis sister, Tina. One Life to Live celebrated its 40th anniversary in July 2008 with the return of former cast members. Deceased characters and even creator Agnes Nixon appeared in a storyline in which Slezaks Viki dies and visits Heaven, Daytime Emmy-nominee Andrea Evans and others returned for a tribute to Tina Lords famous 1987 plunge over the Iguazu Falls and the 1990 royal wedding in fictional Mendorra. And like the 1988 Old West storyline in which the character Clint Buchanan steps back 100 years in the past, on July 21,2008, Robert S. This studio was made available by the move of sister serial All My Children to a facility in Los Angeles

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Chicago (2002 film)
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Chicago is a 2002 American musical crime comedy film based on the musical of the same name, exploring the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Chicago during the Jazz Age. The film stars Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger and Richard Gere, Chicago centers on Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart, two murderesses who find themselves in jail together awaiting trial in 1920s Chicago. Velma, a vaudevillian, and Roxie, a housewife, fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows. Directed and choreographed by Rob Marshall, and adapted by screenwriter Bill Condon, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, Chicago won six Academy Awards in 2003, the film was critically lauded, and was the first musical to win Best Picture since Oliver. In 1924, Roxie Hart sees star Velma Kelly perform at a Chicago theater, wanting stardom for herself, she begins an affair with Fred Casely, who claims to know the manager. After the show, Velma is arrested for killing her husband Charlie and sister Veronica, a month later, Casely admits to Roxie that he has no showbiz connections and just wanted her body. She convinces her husband, Amos, to take the blame, as Amos confesses to the detective, Roxie fantasizes that she is singing a song devoted to her husband. However, when the detective brings up evidence that Roxie and Casely were having an affair, Amos recants, ambitious District Attorney Harrison announces he will seek the death penalty. At Cook County Jail, Roxie is sent to Murderess Row, Roxie meets her idol Velma, but her friendship is rudely rebuffed. She learns the backstories of the women there, including Velma Kelly. On Mortons advice, Roxie engages Velmas lawyer, the brilliant Billy Flynn, the press believe the story, praised by the public as a tragic heroine, Roxie becomes an overnight sensation. Meanwhile, Kitty Baxter, a heiress, is arrested for murdering her husband. To Velmas surprise, Roxie quickly steals back the fame by claiming to be pregnant. Amos is ignored by the press, and Flynn, to create sympathy for Roxie, convinces him that the child is Caselys. Roxie over-confidently fires Flynn, believing she can now win on her own, however, when Katalin Helinszki, a Hungarian woman from Murderess Row is hanged, she realizes the gravity of the situation and rehires Flynn. Roxies trial begins, and Billy turns it into a spectacle with the help of the sensationalist newspaper reporters. Billy discredits witnesses, manipulates evidence, and even stages a public reconciliation between Amos and Roxie when she says the child is his. The trial seems to be going Roxies way until Velma appears with Roxies diary, Billy discredits the diary, implying that Harrison was the one who planted the evidence

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Catherine Zeta-Jones
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Catherine Zeta-Jones, CBE is a Welsh actress. Born and raised in Swansea, Zeta-Jones aspired to be an actress from a young age, in her early teens, she played roles in the West End productions of the musicals Annie and Bugsy Malone. She studied musical theatre at the Arts Educational Schools, London and her screen debut came in the unsuccessful French-Italian film 1001 Nights, and she went on to find greater success as a regular in the British television series The Darling Buds of May. Dismayed at being typecast as the pretty girl in British films. Zeta-Jones initially established herself in Hollywood with roles that highlighted her sex appeal such as in the action film The Mask of Zorro, critics praised her portrayal of a vengeful pregnant woman in Traffic and a murderous singer in the musical Chicago. The latter won her Academy and BAFTA Awards for Best Supporting Actress, parts in smaller-scale features were followed by a decrease in workload, during which she returned to stage and portrayed an ageing actress in A Little Night Music, winning a Tony Award. Zeta-Jones continued to work intermittently in the 2010s, starring in the psychological thriller Side Effects and she supports various charities and causes, and is a prominent celebrity endorser of brands. Her struggle with depression and bipolar II disorder has been well-documented by the media and she is married to the actor Michael Douglas with whom she has two children. Zeta-Jones was born in Swansea, Wales, on 25 September 1969 to David Jones, the owner of a factory, and his wife Patricia. Her father is Welsh and her mother is of Irish Catholic descent and she was named after her grandmothers, Zeta Jones and Catherine Fair. She has a brother, David, and a younger brother, Lyndon. Zeta-Jones was raised in the area of Mumbles. Because Zeta-Jones was a child, her mother sent her to the Hazel Johnson School of Dance when she was four years old. She was educated at the Dumbarton House School, a school in Swansea. The family came from a modest background, but their fortunes improved when they won £100,000 in a competition, allowing them to pay for Zeta-Jones dance. Zeta-Jones participated in stage shows from a young age and gained local media attention when her rendition of a Shirley Bassey song won a Junior Star Trail talent competition. As part of a troupe, she routinely took trips to London. At the age of nine, she was selected to one of the orphan girls in a West End production of the musical Annie

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Law & Order franchise
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Law & Order is a franchise composed of a number of related American television series created by Dick Wolf. They were originally broadcast on NBC, and all of deal with some aspect of the criminal justice system. Together, the series, its various spin-offs, the TV film. Shared people and resources in a fictional setting are the connecting links between the shows, e. g. Hudson University and the New York Ledger tabloid newspaper. Many supporting characters, such as attorneys, psychologists and medical examiners are also shared among the shows. Occasionally, crossovers of characters or shared storylines between two of the shows will occur. A few major characters have left the cast of one show within the franchise only to eventually join another. The music, style and credits of the shows tend to be similar, the shows share the iconic dun, dun sound effect of a jail cell locking, created, along with the theme songs, by Mike Post. In October 2012, Law & Order, Special Victims Unit show runner/executive producer Warren Leight said of the future of the Law & Order franchise, im curious to see if theres another iteration somewhere down the line, he says. We try hard to maintain a level of quality which I think is why the shows sustained in reruns so well. And Id like to believe theres room for another generation in some way, in February 2015, NBC was purported to have interest in bringing back the flagship Law & Order as a limited series. As of February 2016, NBC has not publicly announced intentions to revive the original series, as of March 22,2017,1,088 original episodes of the Law & Order franchise have aired. The first thirty minutes of an episode features a lead detective trio. On May 14,2010, NBC announced that it was canceling the original series, the series finale aired on May 24,2010. Wolf briefly attempted to continue the series on cable, but the series moved into the history books, Law & Order, Special Victims Unit 18 seasons, 400+ episodes SVU follows the cases investigated by Olivia Benson and her Manhattan Special Victims Unit colleagues. The shows focus is on detectives who investigate sexually based crimes and crimes against children, during season eighteen, these detectives include Kelli Giddish, Ice-T, and Peter Scanavino. The detectives depicted, portrayed by Vincent DOnofrio and Kathryn Erbe, during the final season, julia Ormond and Jay O. Sanders also star in the tenth season of the series. On July 15,2011, USA Network co-president Jeff Wachtel confirmed Law & Order and this was the first Law & Order spin-off to be canceled due to low ratings, Orbachs death also contributed to the shows cancellation, as well as its competition with the hit series Numb3rs

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Law & Order: Criminal Intent
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Law & Order, Criminal Intent is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it was also primarily produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, the series premiered on September 30,2001, Criminal Intent focuses on the investigations of the Major Case Squad in a fictionalized version of the New York City Police Department set in New York Citys One Police Plaza. In the style of the original Law & Order, episodes are often ripped from the headlines or loosely based on a crime that received media attention. The series aired on NBC for the first six seasons but was moved to the NBCUniversal-owned USA Network starting with the season to share costs. During its NBC run, each episode aired on USA the week after its original NBC airing, the series ended on June 26,2011, after 10 seasons comprising 195 episodes. The Major Case Squad investigates high-profile cases such as those involving VIPs, local government officials and employees, the industry. The series pays attention to the actions and motives of the criminals, rather than focusing exclusively on the police and prosecutions. A feature of each Criminal Intent episode is that the cold open always involves a series of cut-scenes that show events from the suspects and victims lives, clues to the crimes eventual solution can often be found in this teaser sequence. Unlike other Law & Order series, most Criminal Intent episodes end in confessions rather than continuing to the trial phase, seasons 1-4 and 10 focus on Detectives Robert Bobby Goren and Alexandra Eames as the primary detectives in every episode. After season 7, Mike Logan retired from the NYPD and was replaced with Detective Zack Nichols until season 10, the UK-aired version of Law & Order, Criminal Intent features the song Theres Only Me by Rob Dougan in the opening credits. Another Rob Dougan track, Im Not Driving Anymore, is used as the theme for Law & Order and Law & Order, from season 6 the UK-aired version theme is Urban Warfare by Paul Dinletir. Law & Order, Criminal Intent was created in 2001 by René Balcer, Balcer served as the shows executive producer, showrunner, and head writer for its first five seasons. The show dominated its time slot on Sundays at 9,00 p. m. for its first three seasons, and was often the highest-rated show of the night, with an average audience of 15.5 million viewers. The show aired Sundays on NBC, with each episode being repeated on USA Network the following Saturday. Beginning in Season 4, it faced new competition from ABCs night-time soap opera Desperate Housewives. Balcer left the show at the end of Season 5, and the show was handed off to Warren Leight, under Leights leadership, the show acquired a new, more melodramatic tone. The mystery aspect of the show was simplified in favor of personal stories involving the detectives. For example, Goren endured his mothers battle with cancer

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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Law & Order, Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural, legal, crime drama television series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced. In the style of the original Law & Order, episodes are often ripped from the headlines or loosely based on crimes that have received media attention. Created and produced by Dick Wolf, the series premiered on NBC on September 20,1999, the show began its 18th season on September 21,2016, and has aired 404 original episodes as of April 5,2017. As the series progressed, additional supporting characters were added as allies of the detectives in the New York County Manhattan District Attorneys office, certain episodes will go into detail about detectives personal lives and how they may or may not tie into the crimes dealt with during the show. Typical episodes follow the detectives and their colleagues as they investigate and prosecute sexually based offenses, on February 1,2016, the series was renewed for an eighteenth season. The season premiered on Wednesday, September 21,2016 at 9 p. m. on NBC, the crime inspired Dick Wolf to write the story for the season one episode of Law & Order titled Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die. Even after writing the episode, however, the continued to haunt Wolf. The original title of the show was Sex Crimes, reflecting the nature of the crimes depicted on the show. Initially there was concern among the producers that, should Sex Crimes fail, additionally, Ted Kotcheff wanted to create a new series that was not dependent upon the original series for success. Wolf felt, however, that it was important and commercially desirable to have Law & Order in the title, the first episode, Payback, premiered on NBC on September 20,1999. Executive producer Neal Baer left Law & Order, SVU as show-runner at the end of twelve, after eleven years on the show. Baer was replaced by former Law & Order, Criminal Intent executive producer/showrunner Warren Leight, in March 2015 it was announced that Warren Leight signed a three-year deal with Sony Pictures Television, that will allow him to work on SVU one more season, its seventeenth. Leight joined the show in season thirteen and it was announced on March 10,2016 that original Law & Order veteran producer Rick Eid would take Leights place as showrunner/executive producer starting in season 18. Creator Dick Wolf commented to The Hollywood Reporter, Im extremely pleased that Rick had decided to rejoin the family and hope that he will be here for years to come. Many exterior scenes of Law & Order, Special Victims Unit are filmed on location in New York City, Wolfs home town, as the NYPD encounters varied law enforcement challenges on a daily basis, the backdrop provides the writers a supply of ideal locations from which to choose. When searching for a place to film the interiors of the show, the show moved into the studio space at Chelsea Piers that had been occupied by the original Law & Order series until its cancellation in May 2010. Fort Lee, New Jersey served as the location for Detective Elliot Stablers residence in Queens. The show originally aired on Monday nights at 9,00 p. m. ET for the first nine episodes, from September 20 through November 29,1999

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Law & Order
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Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It originally aired on NBC and, in syndication, on cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13,1990, and completed its 20th, at the time of its cancellation, Law & Order was the longest-running crime drama on American primetime television. Its record of 20 seasons is a tie with Gunsmoke for the longest-running live-action scripted American prime-time series with ongoing characters, although it has fewer episodes than Gunsmoke, Law & Order ranks as the longest-running hour-long primetime TV series. Gunsmoke, for its first six seasons, was originally a half-hour program, plots are often based on real cases that recently made headlines, although the motivation for the crime and the perpetrator may be different. The show has been noted for its revolving cast over the years, the success of the series has led to the creation of additional shows, making Law & Order a franchise, with also a television film, several video games, and international adaptations of the series. It has won and has been nominated for awards over the years. On May 14,2010, NBC announced that it had canceled Law & Order, in July 2010, however, he indicated that those attempts had failed and declared that the series had now moved to the history books. However, in February 2015, rumors started that NBC was planning to bring the back for 10 episodes. In May 2015, former star Sam Waterston announced to The Hollywood Reporter that he supports and would join a revival of Law & Order, saying, Youre darn right. Creator Dick Wolf has expressed wanting to use a L&O revival to do a ripped from the headlines story-line surrounding the trial of Robert Durst. Everybody who knows me knows its something I want to do, he continued, at the 2015 Television Critics Association summer press tour, Wolf noted everyone wants a revival, It is a question of. Most of the involved are very successful in their careers. To try to get everything in sequence is more difficult than it looks on the outside. I would love to do it if we can make it work, in 1988, Dick Wolf developed a concept for a new television series that would depict a relatively optimistic picture of the American criminal justice system. He initially toyed with the idea of calling it Night & Day, the first half of each episode would follow two detectives and their commanding officer as they investigate a violent crime. The second half of the episode would follow the District Attorneys Office, through this, Law & Order would be able to investigate some of the larger issues of the day by focusing on stories that were based on real cases making headlines. Wolf took the idea to then-president of Universal Television Kerry McCluggage, who pointed out the similarity to a 1963 series titled Arrest and Trial, which lasted one season

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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CSI, Crime Scene Investigation is a procedural forensics crime drama television series that premiered on CBS October 6,2000. The series, starring William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Laurence Fishburne, Ted Danson, the series concluded on September 27,2015, after 15 seasons, with a feature-length finale titled Immortality. The team is led by Gil Grissom, a socially-awkward forensic entomologist. Grissoms second-in-command, Catherine Willows, is a mother with a cops instinct. Born and raised in Vegas, Catherine was a stripper before being recruited into law enforcement, following Grissoms departure during the ninth season of the series, Catherine is promoted to Supervisor. After overseeing the training of new investigator Raymond Langston, Willows is replaced by D. B, Russell, and recruited to the FBI shortly thereafter. Russell is a man, a keen forensic botanist and a veteran of the Seattle Crime Lab. In the series season, Russell is reunited with his former partner Julie Finlay. During the 1990s, Anthony Zuiker caught producer Jerry Bruckheimers attention after writing his first movie script, Zuiker was convinced that there was a series in the concept, Bruckheimer agreed and arranged a meeting with the head of Touchstone Pictures. The studios head at the time liked the script and presented it to ABC, NBC and Fox executives. The head of development at CBS saw potential in the script, and the network had a pay-or-play contract with actor William Petersen. The networks executives liked the pilot so much that they decided to include it in their 2000 schedule immediately, airing on Fridays after The Fugitive. Initially it was thought that CSI would benefit from The Fugitive, which was expected to be a hit, formerly a co-production with the now-defunct Alliance Atlantis Communications, that companys interest was later bought by the investment firm GS Capital Partners, an affiliate of Goldman Sachs. CBS acquired AACs international distribution rights to the program, though the non-US DVD distribution rights did not change, the series is currently in syndication, and reruns are broadcast in the U. S. on the Spike and TV Land cable networks. The show has aired in reruns on the USA Network since January 14,2011, the CSI catalog has been exclusive to the whole NBC Universal portfolio since September 2014. Occasionally, the cast would still shoot on location in Las Vegas, other California locations include Verdugo Hills High School, UCLAs Royce Hall, Pasadena City Hall, and California State University, Los Angeles. While shooting took place primarily at Universal Studios in Universal City, California, CSIs theme song was, since season one, Who Are You, written by Pete Townshend with vocals by lead singer Roger Daltrey of The Who. In certain countries, to music licensing fees, a unique theme was used instead

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CSI: Miami
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CSI, Miami is an American police procedural drama television series that premiered on September 23,2002, on CBS. CSI, Miami is executive produced by Carol Mendelsohn, Anthony E. Zuiker, the series ended on April 8,2012, after 10 seasons and 232 episodes. In 2006, BBC News published an article stating that CSI, Miami was the worlds most popular television series, the team is led by Lieutenant Horatio Caine, who, through his history as a bomb-disposal expert, has gained specialized knowledge in explosive forensics. Horatio believes that evil is and lives between the perpetrators of this evil and the people who try and come between that evil and the citizen. On April 17,2002, CBS Television Studios announced plans to launch a series originally titled CSI, Miami-Dade, on the location choice, co-creator Carol Mendelsohn stated that felt Miami was the most happening place Miami is so rich as a character. There are so many different cultures here all colliding, all that gives Miami an edge. Kim Delaney joined the following the pilot episodes broadcast. The series is produced by creators Carol Mendelsohn, Anthony E. Zuiker. Jerry Bruckheimer also executive-produces the series, in 2002, CSI executive producer Anthony Zuiker began casting for the then-unnamed Miami based spin-off. First cast was Emily Procter, as Calleigh Duquesne, regarding her decision to leave The West Wing and join Miami, Procter stated that It was like choosing between a boyfriend that wants to be with you casually or a man that says I love you. She described her character as a weird girl bright and very nerdy and she wears a lot of boot-cut corduroy pants and turquoise necklaces and looks like a hippie. I just like to pretend Im Velma in Scooby-Doo, adam Rodriguez, Rory Cochrane, and Khandi Alexander were cast alongside Procter, completing the supporting ensemble. For the lead, CBS suggested David Caruso, Zuiker, who stated that he had heard about the NYPD Blue thing, was initially hesitant. Elaborating, Zuiker stated that he sort of jumped in and said, Naw, the shows tough enough to get off the ground and I dont want to walk into any problems. And said, Yeah, well have him out for dinner. Caruso was later cast as Caine and he was the last pilot cast member to be contracted to series. Following the back-door pilot, Zuiker stated that he believed the series needed a more balance in terms of a leading woman. Executives offered Sela Ward the part of Megan Donner, a Lieutenant, Ward turned down the role, and producers later cast Kim Delaney

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Rescue Me (U.S. TV series)
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Rescue Me is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on the FX on July 21,2004 and concluded on September 7,2011. The series focuses on the professional and personal lives of a group of New York City firefighters, the protagonist and focal point of the series is veteran New York City Firefighter Tommy Gavin. The series follows Tommys troubled family and co-workers as they deal with life issues. Tommy struggles with the loss of his cousin and best friend, Firefighter Jimmy Keefe, as well as fifty-nine other firefighters whom he knew, Jimmy frequently visits Tommy in ghostly dreams. Tommy is an impatient, self-loathing, hypocritical, manipulative, relapsed alcoholic who suffers with severe survivor guilt, in the pilot episode, Tommy and his wife Janet have already separated, although they are technically still married, and Tommy has moved across the street. Rescue Me mainly focuses on the family of Tommy Gavin and the men of Tommys firehouse, the show opens by exploring their lives, both at home and inside the firehouse. It also features the well-known comedian Denis Leary, who carries his humorous nature over into the show. Gavin and his wife, Janet are separated and, from across the street, he sees her begin to again and plans to get her back and prevent her from taking his children. Janet separated from Tommy several months prior, due to his failure to commit to his family and open up about 9/11. Tommy also begins an affair with Jimmys widow Sheila, and Probationary Firefighter, or probie Mike Silletti begins to date a fat chick named Theresa. Lt. Ken Shea, Tommys superior officer, deals with 9/11 by secretly writing poetry, after firefighter Billy Warren dies in a fire, the city sends Laura Miles to replace him. She clashes with the guys in general and with Tommy in particular and she is watching him, and believes he is becoming dangerous as he takes more and more seemingly unnecessary risks on the job. In the final scene of the finale, Tommy shows up at his wifes house to find her. While consuming a bottle of vodka he finds in a cupboard, the second season premiered on June 21,2005. It began with Tommy at a new firehouse on Staten Island and his replacement at 62 Truck, Sully, while responding to a fire at an underground sex club, they discover that the woman they rescued is really Sully in a black leather skirt and bustier. The next day, Sully requests a transfer because he knows that the crew will never let him live that down and this clears the way for Tommy to return. Back in the old house Tommy shifts his focus to finding his family and dealing with his father, Sheila has a miscarriage, but lies about it to keep Tommy near. Later on in the season, Sheila gets involved in a relationship with a woman who turns abusive towards Sheila, meanwhile, Tommy and Johnny Gavin find out that their father had a long, on-going affair during their childhood, which produced two children

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The Bronx Is Burning
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The Bronx Is Burning is a television drama that debuted on ESPN on July 10,2007, after the 2007 MLB Home Run Derby. It is an eight-episode mini-series adapted from Jonathan Mahlers best-selling book, Ladies and Gentlemen, the series is produced by ESPN Original Entertainment in conjunction with Tollin/Robbins Productions. Filming began on September 18,2006, in Connecticut and New York, the 2007 debut of the series marked the 30th anniversary of the 1977 World Series win for the Yankees, the first under Steinbrenner. After airing on ESPN, the episodes were placed ABC on Demand, the central theme of the adaptation is the 1977 New York Yankees against the backdrop of New York City. Yankee superstar Reggie Jackson and manager Billy Martin are locked in a state of warfare. Jackson was a foil for the scrappy Martin, the hero of New Yorks fed-up white working class and a powerful reminder of the less complicated past of the team. While owner George Steinbrenner was providing General Patton-style leadership, he was intent on keeping his promise to the people of New York of delivering a World Series title, however, the burning of tenement housing in New York City in the 1970s was the end-game of urban renewal. After a building was redlined, it was deemed unsuitable for sale in the eyes of the banking industry. A buildings owner could not sell his building unless he received a cash payment, landlords were forced to maintain a building without being able to afford to keep it. Taxes collected by the city were greater than what could be charged to tenants, with nobody paying cash to buy the building, and no way to sell the building to a conventional buyer, the landlords only recourse was to set it on fire. Episodes were filmed in New London, Waterford and Norwich in Connecticut as well as in New York City, the series soundtrack consisted of songs by The Ramones. The series has been lauded for maintaining the historical accuracy reflected by its literary source, in this context, it lampoons Martins actual firing in 1978, not threats of such during the 1977 season. com

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Without a Trace
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Without a Trace is an American police procedural television drama series that originally aired on CBS from September 26,2002, to May 19,2009. The series follows the cases of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City, on May 19,2009, CBS announced the cancellation of the series after seven seasons. Each episode followed the search for one individual under tight time constraints, the stories also focused on the personal lives of the team members and illustrated how their experiences gave them insight into cases. The team consisted of Jack Malone, Samantha Spade, Vivian Johnson, Danny Taylor, Martin Fitzgerald, and Elena Delgado, the real FBI does investigate missing persons, specifically, they have the authority to help in any mysterious disappearances of children abducted by nonfamily members. The groups that investigate these crimes are called Child Abduction Rapid Deployment teams and they get involved in other missing persons cases as needed but do not have a dedicated unit. One element that set the series apart from other TV police dramas was the display of information about missing persons at the end of most episodes. This resulted in a kidnapped brother and sister being found on July 25,2005, at least five people have been found as a result of those announcements. Occasionally, such information was replaced with other public-service announcements, such as an episode about a suicide which presented information on a suicide help line. Without a Trace took place within Jerry Bruckheimers CSI, Crime Scene Investigation universe, a crossover episode featured characters Gil Grissom from CSI and Jack Malone from Without a Trace working together to solve the same case. Without a Trace debuted as part of the CBS fall line-up in 2002, created by Hank Steinberg and it was the first show to achieve strong ratings opposite longtime NBC hit medical drama ER—which, like Without a Trace, is produced by Warner Bros. The first two showrunners were Steinberg and Ed Redlich, between seasons two and three, Redlich moved away from active participation in the series, with staff writers Jan Nash and Greg Walker taking over. In the middle of four, Steinberg left to produce the series The Nine. The show is the only primetime U. S. drama to feature two Australians and a Brit playing Americans in the regular cast, in 2003, the TNT Network acquired syndication rights to the series for US$1.4 million per episode. Without a Trace ran on Thursdays at 10 pm until September 2006, in the 2007–2008 season, it swapped timeslots with Shark, returning it to its old timeslot on Thursdays. However, this lasted only until the 2008–2009 season, when it moved to Tuesdays at 10 pm, on May 19,2009, it was reported that the series would not be returning for an eighth season, the morning before the series finale aired. In the first season, the team is introduced to the viewers, as the team continues to track down missing people, Jack and his wife slide towards divorce, while Jack must also care for his father who has Alzheimers disease. The team members life histories are revealed, including the fact that Martin was practically raised by his aunt and uncle, Martin fatally shoots a child sex trafficker, and both Vivian and he must keep quiet to keep their jobs. CBS argued that the featured a important and socially relevant storyline warning parents to exercise greater supervision of their teenaged children

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The CW Television Network
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Entertainment division of Time Warner, former majority owner of The WB Television Network. The CW name is a derived from the first letters of the names of its two parent corporations. The network made its debut on September 18,2006, after its two predecessors, UPN and The WB, respectively ceased independent operations on September 15 and 17 of that year. The CWs first two nights of programming – on September 18 and 19,2006 – consisted of reruns, the CW marked its formal launch date on September 20,2006, with the two-hour premiere of the seventh cycle of Americas Next Top Model. As of 2008, the programming lineup was intended to appeal mainly to women between the ages of 18 and 34, although starting in 2011 the network increased in programming that appeal to men. The CW is also available in Mexico through affiliates located near the Mexico–U. S, in both countries, some CW affiliates are receivable over-the-air in border areas depending on the stations signal coverage. UPN and The WB both began just as the Fox network had started to secure a foothold with American television audiences, the two networks launched to limited fanfare and generally mediocre to poor results. However, over the subsequent 11 1⁄2 seasons, both were able to air several series that became quite popular, in the eleven years that UPN and The WB were in operation, the two networks lost a combined $2 billion. CBS chairman Leslie Moonves explained that the name of the new network was formed from the first letters of CBS and Warner Bros, joking, like both UPN and The WB, The CW targets its programming towards younger audiences. CBS and Time Warner hoped that combining their networks schedules and affiliate lineups would strengthen The CW into a major broadcast network. The CW launched with a premiere special/launch party from the CBS-produced Entertainment Tonight at Warner Bros, when Top Model made its network premiere on September 20,2006, The CW scored a 3.4 rating/5 share in the Nielsen household ratings. It scored a 2.6 rating among Adults 18–49, finishing fourth in that age demographic, on May 9,2008, The CW announced that it would lease its Sunday lineup to production company Media Rights Capital. With no first-run programming available to run on Sundays as a backup, the network added reruns of The Drew Carey Show and Jericho, the CW has generally struggled in the Nielsen ratings since its inception, primarily placing fifth in all statistics tabulated by Nielsen. On several occasions, The CW has even been outrated by Spanish language network Univision and this had led to speculation within the industry that CBS, Time Warner or both companies could abandon the venture if ratings did not improve. Executives with CBS Corporation and Time Warner also emphasized their commitment to the network and this, in turn, resulted in the discontinuance of the Sunday late afternoon repeat block that The CW inherited from The WB through its use of the predecessor networks scheduling model. Maatta began reporting to Pedowitz as a result of the appointment as network president. Pedowitz revealed that the target demographic of the network would not change. The network also ordered more episodes of its series and ran them consecutively through the first week of December, starting on September 12

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Gossip Girl (TV series)
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Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series, created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, originally ran on The CW for six seasons from September 19,2007, to December 17,2012. Narrated by the omniscient blogger Gossip Girl, voiced by Kristen Bell, the series begins with the return of Upper East Side teenage it girl Serena van der Woodsen from a mysterious absence. Gossip Girl reveals that Serena has been away at boarding school in Cornwall, Connecticut, Blair Waldorf, whom creators describe as being the queen at the center of their chess game, is the queen bee of Constance Saint Jude prep schools social scene. She also happens to be the childhood best friend and occasional rival of Serena van der Woodsen, other characters of the turbulent Manhattan scene, Vanessa Abrams, Dans childhood best friend. He is Dan and Jennys father and primary guardian, dorota is Blairs primary housekeeper since her youth. Bart Bass is a rude and wealthy man on the upper east side. The success of Gossip Girl led to adaptations outside the United States, the show has received numerous award nominations, winning 18 Teen Choice Awards. The CW officially renewed Gossip Girl for a sixth and final season on May 11,2012, the final season, consisting of 10 episodes, premiered on October 8,2012, and ended on December 17,2012. The Gossip Girl book series was supposed to be adapted into a film starring Lindsay Lohan with head Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. When the film project did not get off the ground, Stephanie Savage, as of October 2006, Schwartz was working on the pilot. He said, I was very skeptical, I dont want to do The O. C. But I thought the books were smart, the characters are worldly in a way that Orange County kids arent. The characteristics for each character in the pilot were based on the first Gossip Girl book, in January 2007, the show was given the green light by The CW. Joshua Safran, who started as a producer before becoming co-executive producer, was later added as an executive producer. On April 24,2012, it was announced that he would leave the show at the end of the season to be the new showrunner of NBCs now-cancelled musical series Smash. To fill in Safrans void, co-executive producer Sara Goodman was promoted to producer for the sixth season. Alexandra Patsavas who worked with Schwartz on The O. C. was in charge of the music, Eric Daman was at the head of the costume department, he previously had assisted Patricia Field on Sex and the City

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New Amsterdam (TV series)
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New Amsterdam is an American television drama which aired for eight episodes in 2008 on Fox. The series was nominated for an Emmy for Main Title Design, John Amsterdam is an NYPD homicide detective who is 400 years old, but has the appearance of a 35-year-old. He was a Dutch soldier in Manhattan in the year 1642 when he stepped in front of a sword to save the life of a Native American girl during a massacre of her tribe, the girl in turn rescued Amsterdam by weaving a spell that conferred immortality upon him. It was also prophesied that he would not age until he finds his one true love, Amsterdam is a recovering alcoholic who regularly attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, having remained sober since 1965. In his lifetime he has joined the Army three times, in addition to the Coast Guard, Marines, and Navy and he stated that he never joined the Air Force because he doesnt like heights. At some point he attended Columbia University and served in the CIA, amsterdams quest to find his true love drives the series. But in each episode as a policeman he has crimes to solve, though estranged from and unknown to most of his many descendants, except his 65-year-old son Omar, he tries to keep track of them and aids them when possible. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as John Amsterdam, a New York homicide detective E-4 who will become mortal again after he finds his one true love, as a side effect of the immortality ritual, John has a rare Native American blood type, with lethal levels of lead, E-1. He is named after Omar Khayyám, New Amsterdam was created by Allan Loeb and Christian Taylor, who also served as executive producers alongside David Manson, Leslie Holleran, Steven Pearl and Lasse Hallström. The latter also directed the pilot, produced by Laha Films, Regency Television, Sarabande Productions and Scarlet Fire Entertainment, the series was greenlit and given a thirteen-episode order on May 11,2007. The series was scheduled to premiere in the fall of 2007, consequently airing on Tuesday nights at 8, 00/7, 00c on Fox, but it was held as a mid-season replacement and began airing in March 2008. On Tuesday, October 16,2007, an article in The Hollywood Reporter stated that production on New Amsterdam had been stopped for an indefinite period, with seven episodes of the series in the can. The article also mentioned that Fox decided to review the series and then whether or not to order new episodes. A pre-air version of the Pilot episode was leaked onto internet file-sharing services on December 2,2007, on January 23,2008, Fox resumed airing commercials for the show stated coming soon. Following the premiere another preview episode aired on March 6,2008, the series also aired on Global in Canada. Global ran the first episode one hour before the U. S. broadcast, on May 11,2008, it was announced that Fox had decided to cancel New Amsterdam. The show was nominated for a 2008 Emmy Award for Main Title Design, the background idea behind the show, a present-day immortal who changes aliases to avoid detection, has been used elsewhere. S. Television series the aired in 2014, New Amsterdam at the Internet Movie Database New Amsterdam at TV. com Fan site, New Amsterdam - Forever at the Wayback Machine New Amsterdam articles on Seat42f

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In Treatment (U.S. TV series)
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The program, which stars Gabriel Byrne as Paul, debuted on January 28,2008, as a five-night-a-week series. The programs format, script and opening theme are based on, after winning critical acclaim and numerous honors, including Emmy, Golden Globe and Writers Guild awards, In Treatment returned for a second season, premiering on April 5,2009. The second season built on the success of the first, winning a 2009 Peabody Award, the third and final season premiered on October 26,2010, for a seven-week run, with four episodes per week. Each episode of In Treatment focuses on one patient, including Paul, the first season included 43 episodes, each airing a different night of the week, Monday through Friday. The first season covered nine weeks for most of the characters, except in the final week, the series was renewed for a second season on June 20,2008, with Byrne, Wiest and Glynn Turman returning. Michelle Forbes, who played Pauls wife in the first season, production on Season 2 began in New York City in the fall and wrapped up in early 2009. According to The New York Times, production relocated to New York from Los Angeles at the insistence of Byrne, the move and the addition of Sunday night to the schedule were considered votes of confidence in the series by HBO executives. HBO Canada, a channel that includes The Movie Network in Eastern Canada and Movie Central in Western Canada. During the first several weeks of Season 1, episodes were available on HBOs website in streaming video, the free service was discontinued, however, when Apples iTunes and Amazon Unbox began offering the first 15 shows for download. Gabriel Byrne portrays Paul Weston, a charming, relentless psychologist, Paul is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he earned his undergraduate degree, Columbia University, where he earned a masters degree and The New School, where he received his PhD. In summer 1988, he moved to Maryland, where he worked at the Washington–Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute, set in Baltimore, Paul has a private entry office in his home. During this season, the episodes aired on their days of the week. Supporting, Peter Horton as Zack Jake Richardson as Ian Mae Whitman as Rosie Max Burkholder as Max Julia Campbell as Olivia Glynn Turman as Alex Prince, Laura and Pauls relationship grows more complex and difficult to control. After Laura professes her love for him, Paul reflects on his own feelings for her and eventually, in sessions with Gina, midway through the season, Laura decides to end her therapy with Paul after he rejects her advances countless times. She returns, needing to talk to someone, after she learns her father is dying and they run into each other at Alexs funeral, and later, Gina gives Paul the go-ahead to go after Laura, but a panic attack prevents him from going through with it. Alex, who at one point meets Laura and has an affair with her. In the end, Sophie benefits greatly from her therapy with Paul, at the end of the season, Sophie leaves Baltimore to pursue further gymnastic training in Denver. In Season Two, April reveals to Paul that Sophie eventually went to college, April learned this information about Sophie from Sophies feedback about Paul on Pauls web page on the Pratt site/listerv

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The Americans (2013 TV series)
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The Americans is an American television period drama series created and produced by former CIA officer Joe Weisberg. On May 25,2016, FX set an end-date for the series by renewing it for a fifth and sixth season, the 13-episode fifth season premiered on March 7,2017. It will be followed by a 10-episode sixth and final season in 2018, the Americans, a fictional period piece set during the Reagan administration, was created by Joe Weisberg, a former CIA officer. The story picks up shortly after the two parents are activated in the early 1980s, the shows creator has described the series as being ultimately about a marriage, The Americans is at its core a marriage story. International relations is just an allegory for the human relations, sometimes, when youre struggling in your marriage or with your kid, it feels like life or death. For Philip and Elizabeth, it often is, Weisberg was fascinated by stories he had heard from agents who served abroad as spies, while raising their families. He was interested in bringing that concept to television, with the idea of a family of spies, I was totally joining the CIA because I wanted to be a spy. But the second they asked that question, then I thought, Now Im going to fail the test. Weisberg was partially influenced by the events of the Illegals Program to write a script for the series. His research material included notes on the KGBs Cold War left by Vasili Mitrokhin, an obvious way to remedy that for television was to stick it back in the Cold War. At first, the 70s appealed to me just because I loved the hair, but can you think of a better time than the 80s with Ronald Reagan yelling about the evil empire. After reading Weisbergs novel, An Ordinary Spy, executive producer Graham Yost discovered that Weisberg had also written a pilot for a spy series. Yost read the pilot and discovered that it was annoyingly good, Weisberg stated that he had no idea about who would star in the series before casting began. FX president John Landgraf had the idea to cast Keri Russell in the series, leslie Feldman, the head of casting at DreamWorks, saw Matthew Rhys in a play and suggested him to Weisberg. Russell and Rhys had met briefly at a party years before and they both were attracted to the series because of its focus on the relationship between their characters. Russell described the script as interesting, continuing, It was so far from a procedural. And I didnt know that I wanted to do it, I always say no to everything. I never want to do anything, but I just couldnt stop thinking about it

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The Good Wife
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The Good Wife is an American legal and political drama television series that aired on CBS from September 22,2009, to May 8,2016. The executive producers are Ridley Scott, Charles McDougall, and David W. Zucker, the Good Wife is a heavily serialized show featuring several story arcs that carry over several episodes, as well as stand-alone procedural storylines that are concluded by the end of each episode. The serial plots have been showcased in its highly praised fifth season. This is a rarity among The Good Wifes broadcaster CBS, as most of its shows are procedural, the Good Wife won numerous prestigious awards, including five Emmys and the 2014 Television Critics Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Drama. The performances of the shows cast have been recognized, with Julianna Marguliess role as Alicia Florrick receiving significant praise. The show has received wide acclaim for its insight on social media. CBS announced in a promo aired during Super Bowl 50, on February 7,2016, the final episode aired on May 8,2016. The series focuses on Alicia Florrick, whose husband Peter, the former Cook County, Illinois States Attorney, has been jailed following a political corruption. After having spent the previous thirteen years as a stay-at-home mother, the image of a wife standing silently beside her husband as he publicly admitted to his sexual or political misconduct has, according to Robert King, become a sort of cliché. This image led the Kings to question why these women stood by their husbands and they were further intrigued by the fact that many of the wives were lawyers, who had halted their personal careers for the sake of their husbands professional ambitions. The actual idea for the series was first postulated in the following the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal of 2008. As Michelle King, explains, The series was created by Michelle and Robert King, the pair had produced the short-lived legal drama In Justice that aired as a mid-season replacement in early 2006. The creators had worked extensively in feature films. Scott Free productions helped to finance The Good Wife and Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, executive producer Dee Johnson added television writing experience to the team. Charles McDougall directed the episode and was the pilots other executive producer. McDougall had previously enjoyed success as the director of the pilot for Desperate Housewives, All seven executive producers returned when a full series was ordered and they were joined by executive producer Brooke Kennedy. McDougall left the crew after directing and executive producing the second episode, several new producers were added to the crew once CBS ordered a full season. Todd Ellis Kessler, who had completed production on The Unit

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Pompton Plains, New Jersey
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Pequannock Township is a township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. Pompton has been cited by some sources to mean a place where they catch soft fish, New Jersey Monthly ranked Pequannock Township as the Best Bang for the Buck in New Jersey and 9th overall in its 2011 edition of Best Places to Live in New Jersey. It was then ranked 14th overall in the 2013 edition of Best Places to Live, in the 2015 edition of Best Places to Live in New Jersey, Pequannock ranked 4th overall. The name for the area back at least as far as March 1,1720, when it was referred to as Poquanick. Formed as Poquanock Township on March 25,1740, as the countys largest township, the township was incorporated by the New Jersey Legislatures Township Act of 1798 as one of New Jerseys initial group of 104 townships on February 21,1798. During the American Revolutionary War, both Comte de Rochambeau and George Washingtons troops camped on what is now the site of the Pequannock Valley Middle School. The Mandeville Inn, located on the site of where the soldiers had camped during the war, was built in 1788 and was owned by Garret Hobart. The stone with the date is now located inside the Pequannock Valley Middle School when the Inn was demolished and replaced with the school in 1950. During the Civil War, Pequannock was a stop on the Underground Railroad, Historic sites located in Pequannock Township include, Ackerson Mead Clark House, a Greek revival mansion constructed in the 1870s. Bank Barn Giles Mandeville House Mandeville Inn Martin Berry House, a Dutch home constructed in 1720, Paul DeBow House Paul Barney DeBow House Pequannoc Spillway Pompton dam, constructed in 1837 to provide water for the Morris Canal. Pompton Plains Railroad Station was built in 1872 and offered passenger train service until 1966. Added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 5,2008, according to the United States Census Bureau, the township had a total area of 7.171 square miles, including 6.748 square miles of land and 0.423 square miles of water. The Township of Pequannock is located in eastern Morris County, along Route 23, approximately 5 miles north of the interchange of Route 23 with Interstate 80 and U. S. Route 46. Interstate 287 crosses the northwest corner of the township, with an interchange just north of the township in the borough of Riverdale. Pequannock Township is located 20 miles west of New York City, as of the census of 2010, there were 15,540 people,6,471 households, and 3,986 families residing in the township. The population density was 2,302.7 per square mile, there were 6,794 housing units at an average density of 1,006.7 per square mile. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4. 52% of the population,35. 6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 25. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.40 and the family size was 3.18

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Everyone Says I Love You
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Set in New York City, Venice and Paris, the film features singing by actors not usually known for their singing. The emotions of an extended family in Manhattan are followed in song from NY to Paris. Various friends, lovers, acquaintances, and relatives act, interact, and sing, in New York, Venice, the film takes classic songs and fits them into an updated scenario, and in some cases with unexpected dance routines. The choreography is lively and the actors and actresses do not look like professional dancers and her voice was dubbed by Allen regular Olivia Hayman. The title song was written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, Allen is a well-known Groucho Marx fan. Marxs theme song from Animal Crackers Hooray for Captain Spaulding is featured, the film was released theatrically in North America on 8 December 1996 on three screens. Its opening weekend gross was $131,678 and it ended its North American run with $9,759,200. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 79% fresh rating, based on 43 reviews, the sites consensus states, A likable, infectious musical, Woody Allens Everyone Says I Love You is sometimes uneven but always toe-tapping and fun. Janet Maslin wrote a positive review in the New York Times, describing the film as a delightful. The film was nominated for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy at the 54th Golden Globe Awards, Everyone Says I Love You at the Internet Movie Database Everyone Says I Love You at Virtual History

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Pipe Dream (film)
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Pipe Dream is a 2002 romantic comedy film, starring Mary-Louise Parker and Martin Donovan. The film was directed by John C, walsh, who previously wrote and directed the film Eds Next Move. In New York City, David, a plumber who is unsuccessful with women, creates a new identity as David Coppolberg, due to his good looks and unfamiliarity with film, which passes for inscrutability, he is considered an indie talent. Complicating the situation is the script stolen from Toni, who in turn uses his success to further her own ambitions, the picture was also dubbed neo screwball by Karen Durbin of the New York Times. Pipe Dream was featured in Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turans 2004 book Never Coming To A Theater Near You, the book features a group of some less-widely seen films he felt deserved more attention. Pipe Dream at AllMovie Pipe Dream at the Internet Movie Database

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Something's Gotta Give (film)
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Somethings Gotta Give is a 2003 American romantic comedy film written, produced and directed by Nancy Meyers for Columbia Pictures and Warner Bros. It stars Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton as a successful 60-something and 50-something, keanu Reeves and Amanda Peet co-star, with Frances McDormand, Paul Michael Glaser, Jon Favreau, and KaDee Strickland playing key supporting roles. The film received favorable reviews and was a box-office hit following its North American release, eventually grossing over $266 million worldwide. For her performance Keaton earned a Golden Globe, a Satellite Award, as well as an Academy Award nomination, Nicholson also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. This was Nicholson and Keatons second film together since 1981s Reds, Harry Sanborn is a wealthy New York music mogul who has had a 40-year habit of dating women under 30, including his latest conquest, Marin Klein. The two drive to her mothers Hamptons beach house expecting to be alone, but are surprised by Marins mother, successful playwright Erica Barry, who is there with her sister Zoe. After an awkward dinner, the night turns disastrous when — during foreplay with Marin — Harry has an attack and is rushed to a hospital. The doctor, Julian Mercer, tells Harry to stay nearby for a few days and their personalities clash and make for awkward living arrangements—until they get to know each other. The fact that Harry is dating her daughter and that Julian has fallen for Erica leave the two struggling to deal with relationships, Marin and Harry agree to break up. He and Erica spend more time together and eventually consummate their relationship, Harry discovers that his improving health means that he no longer has to stay with Erica, so he heads home. Although Erica is unaffected by the news, Marin is devastated, Erica is the life of the party until she sees Harry at another table with another woman. Although she is heartbroken, Erica figures that these events would be great to use in a play, Harry hears about it and rushes to the NYC theater where it is being rehearsed. Despite her denials, it is obvious that she has used the most personal details of their affair in the play. Erica coolly rebuffs his every insinuation that he cares about her and he then has another panic attack and is again treated by Dr. Martinez, who warns him that he needs to learn to decompress. Ericas play is a huge success, Harry pays Marin a visit to apologize for anything he ever did to hurt her. She replies that he was nothing but nice to her and happily tells him that she is pregnant and has a new husband, Harry expresses a desire to see Erica. Marin tells him that her mother is in Paris celebrating her birthday, remembering how they had once planned to spend their birthdays together there, he shows up at the Parisian restaurant where she is seated at a table. Harry explains that over the past six months he reached out to all of the women he ever had affairs with and they all had identical harsh stories that helped him learn how I arrived at being me

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The Forgotten (2004 film)
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The Forgotten is a 2004 American science fiction psychological thriller drama film, directed by Joseph Ruben and starring Julianne Moore and Dominic West. The films plot revolves around a woman who thinks that she lost her son in a plane crash 14 months ago, only to wake up one morning and be told that she never had a son. All of her memories are intact but with no evidence that contradicts the claims of her husband and her psychiatrist. It was produced by Revolution Studios for Columbia Pictures and was released in the United States, Dr. Munce tells her that Sam was merely a figment of her imagination and that she is just imagining a life that might have been. He recommends that she be sent to a hospital, but she runs away and meets with a man named Ash whom she thinks is the father of a girl named Lauren who was Sams friend and died in the same crash. At first he dismisses her, claiming he never had a daughter, after she is taken into custody, he remembers his daughter and rescues Telly. Together they escape and go into hiding, pursued by National Security agents, Telly and Ash capture and threaten an agent, who reluctantly reveals that he and other agents are merely helping ″them″ in order to protect humankind. Without warning, the roof of the house blows off and the agent, along with the roof, is sucked into the sky—presumably taken by ″them″—and Telly and Ash flee. Eventually, Telly visits Dr. Munce takes Telly to an airport and the hangar of Quest Airlines. He tells the agent that its over and to stop the experiment, but the agent replies that its not over. He reveals to Telly that she has been a part of an experiment to test whether the bonds between mother and child can be diminished, in her case, her memories could not be fully erased. Telly refuses to deny her sons existence, the agent mentions that if he fails to erase her memory then he will look like a failure. The agent then subdues her and convinces her to think of the first memory she had of Sam, Telly thinks of the day he was born in the hospital, which allows the agent to successfully erase Sams memory from existence. All of her memories of Sam return, before the agent can comprehend whats happening, part of the hangar roof is suddenly blown off, and hes yanked into the sky himself, supposedly for his failure to erase her memory. Telly finds herself living a life, although she remembers everything that has happened. She reunites with Sam at a park, also at the park is Ash, watching over his daughter. Like Sam, he has no memory of what has happened, Telly reintroduces herself, and the two sit and watch the kids play in the playground. The film was released theatrically on September 24,2004, the film was released on DVD on January 18,2005

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Alchemy (film)
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Alchemy is a 2005 film starring Tom Cavanagh and Sarah Chalke. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2005, the film did not have a wide release in movie theaters, so its big public premiere was on television, on ABC Family on October 7,2005. It was written and directed by Evan Oppenheimer, a university computer scientist tries to make a woman fall in love with his interactive computer before she succumbs to a well-known lothario professor. Tom Cavanagh as Mal Downey Sarah Chalke as Samantha Rose James Stacy Barbour as Dr. com, by John Anderson

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Mentor (film)
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Mentor is a 2006 drama film directed by David Langlitz and written by William Whitehurst, exploring the relationship between a Pulitzer Prize–winning author and his protégée. The film stars Rutger Hauer, Matthew Davis, Dagmara Dominczyk, Matthew Davis stars as Carter, introduced as a thirtysomething professor at a mediocre college. Julia is Sanfords graduate assistant as well as his lover, Sanford and Julia adopt the young, eager Carter and expose him to the world of wealth, television, and drugs. Carter travels with them to Sanfords beach house, where he, in the present, Carter has become a shadow of his former promise, a lethargic teacher, an alcoholic, excessive smoker, lacking the ability to sustain relationships. Like Sanford, he has worked his way through a series of graduate assistant girlfriends, Carter is on a reckless path until he receives notice that Sanford has died of cancer. The film jumps back and forth from the present to ten years earlier, as Carter wrestles with the emotions he felt with Sanford. After attending Sanfords funeral, Carter returns to the beach house, there he again meets Julia, older but still appealing, and they discover that Sanford has left the two of them his entire estate. The film ends ambiguously, with Carter and Julia driving off into the night in the Porsche that had been Sanfords and it also was accepted at the Maryland Film Festival on May 13,2006. As of January 2007, the film has not been generally released, the film was shot entirely in Maryland. Johns Hopkins University doubled for both colleges, St. Michaels, Maryland was the location for all of the vacation scenes, Mentor at the Internet Movie Database Mentor at AllMovie

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The Hoax
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The Hoax is a 2006 American drama film starring Richard Gere, directed by Swedish filmmaker Lasse Hallström. The screenplay by William Wheeler is based on the book of the title by Clifford Irving. It recounts Irvings elaborate hoax of publishing an autobiography of Howard Hughes that he helped write. The film was ranked as one of the Top 10 of the year by the Los Angeles Times, the screenplay was considerably different from the book. Hired as an adviser to the film, Irving was displeased with the product. In 1971, publishing executives at McGraw-Hill express an interest in Clifford Irvings novel and his previous book about art forger Elmyr de Hory, had sold poorly. Irving believes he has a work, but the publisher decides against releasing the book after a Life editor deems it unsatisfactory. Vacationing with his friend and researcher Richard Suskind, Irving is ejected from his hotel at 1 a. m, after eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes arrives, returning to New York City to meet with his publishers, Irving finds he has been reduced to meeting with an assistant. Irving storms into the room, says his new project will be the book of the century. He struggles to come up with a fit for his grandiose claim. Seeing a cover story on Hughes, he decides to make him the subject, Irving tells McGraw-Hill that Hughes has recruited him to help write his autobiography, and shows forged handwritten notes from Hughes as proof. Handwriting experts confirm the notes as genuine, and the strike a $500,000 deal for the book. Irving believes that the reclusive Hughes is unlikely to sue him, at the time Irving is having marital problems with his artist wife Edith, he has had an affair. Irving assures Edith hell be faithful as he leaves to begin research with Suskind, to fool experts, the two men devote days to studying documents pertaining to Hughes. They illicitly obtain a copy of a biography of Noah Dietrich, a retired Hughes aide. Irving recites passages into a tape recorder while in character as Hughes, dressing like the millionaire, as work on the book progresses, Irving receives a box containing scandalous material about questionable dealings between Hughes and President Richard Nixon. He believes that Hughes sent the package and convinces himself that Hughes wants this damaging material included in the book, as the publication date draws near, Irving elaborates his hoax, staging an aborted meeting between Hughes and the publishers. Hughes has officially denied that he was involved in the work and they begin to think it will be a bestseller and Irving works to gain larger payments for himself and Hughes

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Gigantic (2008 film)
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Gigantic is a 2008 independent comedy film directed by Matt Aselton and starring Paul Dano, Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman, Edward Asner and Jane Alexander. The story was based on Aseltons childhood wish for his parents to adopt a Chinese baby, the film was shot in New York and Connecticut. It had its premiere at 2008s Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the United States on April 3,2009. Young mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China, Brians life becomes more complicated and contemplative when he forms a relationship with quirky, wealthy Harriet, whom he meets at his mattress store. Paul Dano as Brian Weathersby Zooey Deschanel as Harriet Happy Lolly John Goodman as Al Lolly Edward Asner as Mr. Weathersby Jane Alexander as Mrs and he and co-writer Adam Nagata were fascinated by the idea and built the story around Brians wanting to adopt a baby. Aselton and Nagata, college friends who come from literary backgrounds, aimed to write the film as novelistic and surrealist rather than expository. Aselton chose the title Gigantic because Theres an innocence about the due to its use by children to describe something fantastic. He felt that the title was a juxtaposition against Brians life changing decision to adopt a baby, the script languished for several years before the film went into production, when producer Mindy Goldberg brought the script to Christine Vachon of Killer Films. Aselton said the most challenging part of making the film was casting the two roles of Brian and Harriet. Paul Dano liked the script and was one of the first actors to sign on, Aselton said that Dano was one of the first to audition for the role and the first to understand the story, Deschanel was the second actor to understand, and so both were cast. To prepare for his role, Dano talked to salesmen at Sleepys, a mattress store, filming began on March 3,2008 and lasted for 23 days. As a director of commercials, Aselton brought many of his crew members with him to work on Gigantic. Most of production took place in Brooklyn and Manhattan but several scenes were filmed in Stamford, Connecticut, filming locations included Brooklyn Heights Cadman Plaza West and Cobble Hills Quercy restaurant. Though the producers wanted to use 16 mm film because of the budget, Aselton and Donahue chose to use Super 35 format. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9,2008, following its screening at American Film Market, First Independent Pictures bought the films North American distribution rights. The film was pre-screened at Vassar College in the fall of 2008 and it was given a limited theatrical release on April 3,2009, coinciding with its showing at the Gen Art Film Festival. Rotten Tomatoes critics give it 36%, with 30 of 83 fresh reviews, slant Magazine called the film a meager sum of quirky details and gave it, though it complimented Danos fine performance. Stephen Holden called it a comedy about the children of privilege

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Tanner Hall (film)
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Tanner Hall is a 2009 independent drama film about four girls having their coming-of-age in boarding school. It was written and directed by Tatiana von Fürstenberg and Francesca Gregorini and it stars Rooney Mara, Georgia King, Brie Larson, Amy Ferguson, Tom Everett Scott, Amy Sedaris, Chris Kattan, and Shawn Pyfrom. Shy and studious, Fernanda is usually the voice of reason among her friends-adventurous and sexy Kate, jealous of Fernandas exciting relationship, Victoria begins to sabotage Fernandas plans and plots to publicly humiliate her. Rooney Mara as Fernanda Georgia King as Victoria Brie Larson as Kate Amy Ferguson as Lucasta Tom Everett Scott as Gio Chris Kattan as Mr. George Middlewood Amy Sedaris as Mrs. It was well received at the Hamptons International Film Festival and was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature at the Gen Art Film Festival and it was picked up by Anchor Bay Films, a division of Anchor Bay Entertainment, and was released in theaters September 2011. Despite this Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 12% score with critics and 27% score with audiences, aggregate review site Metacritic scored it 40 out of 100 from 10 reviews, indicating mixed or average. Http, //www. newschoolers. com/index. html http, //www. if3. ca/if3/likealion2010 Official website Tanner Hall at the Internet Movie Database

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Hope Springs (2012 film)
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Hope Springs is a 2012 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by David Frankel, written by Vanessa Taylor and starring Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones and Steve Carell. The film was released on August 8,2012 and it received generally positive reviews and the cast was praised for their performances. It was nominated for a Golden Globe, and won a Peoples Choice Award, although a devoted couple, empty nesters Kay and Arnold Soames are in need of help to reignite the spark in their marriage. They have slept in rooms for years since their youngest child went off to college. One day Kay tells Arnold she has paid for them to undergo a week of intense marriage counseling with Dr. Bernie Feld in a resort town in Maine. Arnold, a creature of plodding, unimaginative routine, denies their marriage is in trouble, in sessions with Dr. Feld they try to articulate their feelings, revitalize their relationship, and find the spark that caused them to fall in love in the first place. Dr. Feld counsels them, asking increasingly frank questions about their sex life, Arnold is angry and defensive, unwilling to see the depth of his wifes disappointment. Angry and crying, Kay goes alone to a bar where she has several glasses of wine, confides in the bartendress and learns that few others are having any sex, either. Back together, they spend the night in the bed for the first time in years. At this sign of progress, Dr. Feld urges new measures and they make halting attempts at intimacy on the bed of their budget motel and again in a movie theater, but this time with disastrous results. In a one-on-one session, Dr. Feld explains to Arnold that couples seeking marriage counseling are doing so for a reason, and asks Arnold frankly, Is this the best you can do. Arnold finally takes the initiative to arrange a dinner and a night at a luxury inn, where they attempt to make love in front of a fireplace. At their final session, Dr. Feld tells them theyve made much progress, back in Omaha, old habits resume. Kay offers to pet-sit for an employee and packs a bag to stay there. That night, both are shown in bed trying to sleep, Arnold enters his wifes bedroom and they tenderly embrace. The lovemaking that follows is warm, natural, and quietly passionate, the next morning its clear that the marriage is in a whole new place. Meryl Streep as Kay Soames Tommy Lee Jones as Arnold Soames Steve Carell as Dr. Bridges soon dropped out, the project then replaced Nichols with David Frankel, without the involvement of Ganfoldini and Hoffman. Steve Carell joined the cast in February 2011, with Tommy Lee Jones replacing Bridges in the opposite lead, filming took place in September and October 2011 in Connecticut

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Soul Man (TV series)
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Soul Man is an American sitcom starring Dan Aykroyd that aired on ABC from April 15,1997 to May 26,1998. A total of 25 half-hour episodes were produced two seasons. The series premiered on April 15,1997, and was picked up for a season of 22 half-hour episodes after only three episodes aired for the first season. Despite ranking 29th in its 2nd and final season, it ended on May 26,1998, a four-year-old Spencer Breslin made his TV debut and was a series regular for the three-episode-long 1997 first season, in which he played the youngest child of Aykroyd. The theme song was Soul Man written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter, Aykroyd was closely associated with the song, having released a hit single of it in 1979 with his band The Blues Brothers. Mike Weber Anthony Clark as Rev and he was hired to put in a new stand for a holy water basin in the season seven episode Losing My Religion. Tim Taylor ended up cutting the hole too big, causing the basin to fall through the floor, in the Season 1 finale episode Cinderella and the Funeral, Al Borland appeared in order to fix the churchs furnace. Reference was made to Tim and the water basin falling through the hole he cut. Zachary Ty Bryan appeared in the episode Public Embarrassment and Todds First Sermon playing Brad Taylor, Soul Man at the Internet Movie Database Soul Man at TV. com

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Ed (TV series)
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Ed is an NBC television program co-produced by David Lettermans Worldwide Pants Incorporated, NBC Productions and Viacom Productions that aired from 2000 to 2004. Long term guest stars included John Slattery as Dennis Martino and Sabrina Lloyd as Frankie Hector, the show was created by executive producers Jon Beckerman and Rob Burnett. David Letterman is also credited as one of the executive producers. Ed received casting, writing, and directing Primetime Emmy Award nominations in 2001, tom Cavanagh received a Golden Globe Award nomination and a TV Guide Award for his work on the program. Dejected, Ed decides to return to his hometown of the fictional Stuckeyville, upon his arrival, he is reunited with friends that he has missed, as well as Carol Vessey, a woman he had a crush on in high school. Tom Cavanagh as Edward Jeremy Ed Stevens, a lawyer who worked for a prestigious law firm in New York City, he loses his job for drafting a contract with a misplaced comma, and on the same day catches his wife having an affair with a mailman. He returns to his town of Stuckeyville where he reconnects with old friends, buys the old Stuckeybowl Bowling Alley. Phil comes up with the idea to combine Eds legal knowledge with bowling and he attempts to win Carol Vessey for 4 years, and while she is in love with him, she cannot believe good men like Ed exist. Julie Bowen as Carol Phyllis Vessey, the object of Eds affection, she has stayed in Stuckeyville most of her life as she teaches English at Stuckeyville High and is also an aspiring writer. She is seen dating a long term boyfriend, a fellow English teacher Nick Stanton, later in the Season, she starts to develop feelings for Ed until an old flame from Eds life comes back to Stuckeyville. A beautiful and popular cheerleader in high school, Ed has had feelings for her since he first saw her in freshman Biology. She almost marries Stuckeyville Highs new principal Dennis Martino in the third season, later in the series she comes to understand that she does truly love Ed and that Ed truly loves her. Ed and Carole marry in the series finale, josh Randall as Dr. Michael Mike Burton. He is Eds best friend and has been since their High School days and he is now a doctor, starting out working for the cantankerous Dr. Jerome, but branches out and starts his own practice. A graduate of Johns Hopkins Medical School, He is very caring towards his patients and takes his oath and he is happily married to his wife Nancy Burton, having known her since high school as well and has a young daughter named Sarah. Mike is also shown to be an athlete as a runner, basketball player. Jana Marie Hupp as Nancy Burton, Carols best friend and a Chemistry teacher at Stuckeyville High who eventually becomes the principal. Molly was unpopular in High School but becomes friends with Carol

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Starved
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Starved is an FX television situation comedy that aired for one season of seven episodes in 2005. The series was about four friends who each suffer from eating disorders and its characters included those with bulimia, anorexia, and binge eating disorder. Eric Schaeffer created the show as well as writing, starring in and directing it, in addition to his own life experiences, Schaeffer also drew upon the experiences of the other members of the principal cast, each of whom coincidentally had struggled with food issues of their own. Starved was the lead-in of FXs hour-long Other Side of Comedy block with Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, FX executives wanted to use the two series to begin building comedy programming and broaden the networks demographic. The series debuted on August 4,2005 to poor reviews and was cancelled in October 2005. Sam is a trader who suffers from anorexia and compulsive overeating. His interests quickly turn into obsessions, despite being with several different women during the series, he is secretly in love with Billie. Billie Frasier is an anorexic and bulimic who also has issues with alcohol abuse, Billie is bisexual and was raised by two gay fathers. Formerly a ballerina, the impetus for her eating disorders. Dan Roundtree is a novelist and compulsive overeater, the only married person among the main characters, he worries that his weight will lead his wife to leave him. He continually schedules and then cancels gastric bypass surgery, adam Williams is a police officer with bulimia. He abuses his authority to extort food from restaurants and delivery people, Belt Tighteners Group Leader leads the support group that the friends attend. Sarcastic and abrasive, she berates the four friends for their failed attempts at dealing with their food issues. Following her tirades, she leads the group in a chant of the groups slogan. Series star Eric Schaeffer created Starved, Other cast members also struggled with food issues. Benanti spent three years fighting anorexia while she danced on Broadway, brown was heavy as a child and describes himself as being haunted by the heavyset kid mentality. Producers only discovered that each of the principal cast members had food issues after the process was completed. The shows were the networks first attempts at following the short-lived 2003 series Lucky

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Night Stalker (TV series)
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Night Stalker is a television series that ran for six weeks in fall 2005 on ABC in America. The series starred Stuart Townsend as Carl Kolchak, a reporter whose wife was murdered. Kolchak spends his time investigating other strange murders, believing they are linked in some way to his wifes murder and he is helped along the way by a fellow crime reporter Perri Reed, photographer Jain McManus and editor Anthony Vincenzo. Night Stalker was a remake of the 1974 series Kolchak, The Night Stalker, ABC owned the rights to the original television movies, but not the Universal television series, and was limited to using only characters that had appeared in those movies. Its first episode was broadcast on Thursday, September 29, at 9 p. m. against CSI, Crime Scene Investigation on CBS, The Apprentice on NBC, Night Stalker was canceled after six episodes due to low ratings. However, the Sci-Fi Channel, which frequently shows canceled network genre shows, the ratings were poor on SciFi Channel as well. In 2007, the show continued in rotation on the networks weekday series marathons, the last episode to be broadcast was the first of a multi-part episode, so viewers never saw the end of the sixth story. However, some time after the cancellation, the episode appeared on Apples iTunes Music Store for download. On February 7,2006, the three episodes were released on iTunes. Night Stalker has been re-run on Chiller and, in the UK in December 2007/January 2008, Beacon newspaper, continuously searches for his wifes murderer and supernatural happenings in Los Angeles. Head crime reporter for the L. A. Beacon, and she helps Kolchak in his cases of the paranormal, although she looks at the cases normally. He is a photographer for the L. A. Beacon, Anthony Vincenzo, Editor of the L. A. Beacon. A friend of Kolchaks who hired him as a favor after they worked together in Las Vegas. Agent Bernie Fain, Kolchaks former friend in Las Vegas but now a nemesis, the character is loosely reworked from Agent Bernie Jenks, Kolchaks Vegas contact in the original Night Stalker TV movie. Edhead, Technology specialist for the L. A. Beacon, alex Nyby, Coroners assistant at the Los Angeles Morgue. A contact of Kolchaks who drools over Perri, Night Stalker, The Complete Series was released on May 30,2006. On November 13,2005, Frank Spotnitz announced on his blog that Night Stalker was canceled, ABC announced the official cancellation of the series that following Monday. On July 28,2006, the series began on the Sci Fi Channel, in Australia, the Seven Network free-to-air station and Prime in regional areas screened the series between early June and September 2007

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Conviction (2006 TV series)
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Conviction is an American television drama on NBC that debuted as a mid-season replacement on Friday, March 3,2006. The cast includes Stephanie March reprising her Law & Order, Special Victims Unit role as Alexandra Cabot. In the series, Cabot returns to New York City and becomes a Bureau Chief ADA supervising a group of young, other cast members include Eric Balfour, Anson Mount, Jordan Bridges, Julianne Nicholson, Milena Govich, and J. August Richards. Prior to the debut, creator Dick Wolf remarked, Conviction will be a charactercedural, we will be dealing extensively with characters back stories. I am delighted with the extraordinary cast we have assembled, which give the show depth. Convictions premiere came precisely one year after the premiere of the short-lived Law & Order, Trial by Jury, which was also created by Dick Wolf and also aired on NBC. On February 21,2006, the episode of Conviction was made available for free download through iTunes music store, the free download was available until March 3. The pilot and all other aired episodes are now available for purchase, NBC announced the series would not be renewed for a second season on May 14,2006, having been routinely beaten in the ratings by CBSs math police procedural Numb3rs. The theme song to Conviction is Destiny, by the English electronic music group Syntax and it can be found on their 2004 album Meccano Mind. Conviction has aired on Five US and Hallmark Channel in the United Kingdom, re-runs can currently be seen on Universal HD and Hulu in the United States. In March 2008, the show debuted in Australia, on Network Tens Ten HD channel, Stephanie March as Alexandra Cabot In Conviction, Bureau Chief ADA Cabot is engaged, and has had a fling with Deputy District Attorney Jim Steele, which was alluded to in Episode 5. Since her time as an ADA with SVU, Alexs ideals, no longer in Witness Protection, she had been back in the Manhattan DAs office for the past three years, which accounted for her reappearance on Conviction in 2006. Anson Mount as Jim Steele Jim Steele is the Deputy Bureau Chief ADA whose best friend, Jim is strong-willed and determined to avenge his friends death. He is shown to have a relationship with Cabot after she decides to plead out his friends murderer. Jim is tough on his subordinates, but he is proud of them. He is having an affair with Jessica Rossi, which was private until the media exploited it in an attempt by a woman on trial to detract from Steeles credibility and portray him in a negative light. Eric Balfour as Brian Peluso Brian Peluso is a laid-back and irresponsible ADA that seems to be heavily into partying but is very invested in his clients. He has sex with a number of different women that he does not seem to care about, something that is seen as a defense mechanism because when he does open up to women, Peluso confesses to being in love with Finn in Hostage

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Vanished
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Vanished is an American serial drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox. The series premiered on August 21,2006 on Fox and its last episode aired on November 10,2006. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, the series begins with the disappearance of the wife of a Georgia senator. The family of the woman, a pair of FBI agents. The show was created by CSI writer Josh Berman, and executive produced by Mimi Leder, who is directed the show. On October 26,2006, USA Today reported that the planned 22-episode series was ordered to be wrapped up after the 13th episode. The story arc of finding Sara Collins was to be concluded, on November 16,2006, Fox confirmed that the show would end after a final episode in December. On December 8,2006, the episode of Vanished appeared online. The production team was told a few months before the show was taken off the air to at least reveal Saras fate by the 13th episode, but none of the other plotlines were resolved. According to E. Onlines Kristin dos Santos report on July 23,2007, however, the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike shortened the season and the conclusion was never developed. Sara Collins vanishes from a dinner held in her honor and she was a teacher, and wife to Senator Jeffrey Collins. She had previously told her husband that she had a secret, the investigation into her kidnapping starts to probe secrets from the main characters. While Senator Collins is clean and desperately wants his wife returned and he paid both $5,000,000 in cash, then voted to confirm a Supreme Court nominee he hated, because he knew the nominee seduced under-aged girls. What he did not know was that one of them was his daughter, Marcy, Marcys secret was that she had been having an affair with the judge. She cut it off after being caught by Sara, but was raped by him. Marcy believes she was poisoned to induce a miscarriage at the end of the series, the justice in question is compromised later, overruling the conviction of a Dead Sea scholar sentenced to death for murdering his wife, thus leading to the translations the conspiracy wanted. Senator Collins son, Max, had gotten into trouble over underage drinking, Sara urged Jeffrey to put him in a rehab facility. There, Max expressed a hatred for his stepmother, which was used against her by the conspiracy, the facility was one Sara had been checked into by her parents, and she escaped from, preventing a brainwashing

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Gossip Girl
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Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series, created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, originally ran on The CW for six seasons from September 19,2007, to December 17,2012. Narrated by the omniscient blogger Gossip Girl, voiced by Kristen Bell, the series begins with the return of Upper East Side teenage it girl Serena van der Woodsen from a mysterious absence. Gossip Girl reveals that Serena has been away at boarding school in Cornwall, Connecticut, Blair Waldorf, whom creators describe as being the queen at the center of their chess game, is the queen bee of Constance Saint Jude prep schools social scene. She also happens to be the childhood best friend and occasional rival of Serena van der Woodsen, other characters of the turbulent Manhattan scene, Vanessa Abrams, Dans childhood best friend. He is Dan and Jennys father and primary guardian, dorota is Blairs primary housekeeper since her youth. Bart Bass is a rude and wealthy man on the upper east side. The success of Gossip Girl led to adaptations outside the United States, the show has received numerous award nominations, winning 18 Teen Choice Awards. The CW officially renewed Gossip Girl for a sixth and final season on May 11,2012, the final season, consisting of 10 episodes, premiered on October 8,2012, and ended on December 17,2012. The Gossip Girl book series was supposed to be adapted into a film starring Lindsay Lohan with head Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. When the film project did not get off the ground, Stephanie Savage, as of October 2006, Schwartz was working on the pilot. He said, I was very skeptical, I dont want to do The O. C. But I thought the books were smart, the characters are worldly in a way that Orange County kids arent. The characteristics for each character in the pilot were based on the first Gossip Girl book, in January 2007, the show was given the green light by The CW. Joshua Safran, who started as a producer before becoming co-executive producer, was later added as an executive producer. On April 24,2012, it was announced that he would leave the show at the end of the season to be the new showrunner of NBCs now-cancelled musical series Smash. To fill in Safrans void, co-executive producer Sara Goodman was promoted to producer for the sixth season. Alexandra Patsavas who worked with Schwartz on The O. C. was in charge of the music, Eric Daman was at the head of the costume department, he previously had assisted Patricia Field on Sex and the City

Paterson, New Jersey
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Paterson is the largest city in and the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 146,199, Paterson has the second-highest density of any U. S. city with over 100,000 people, behind only New York City. For 2015, the Census Bureaus Population Estimates Program calculated a popul

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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separ

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ABC's corporate headquarters are located at 77 West 66th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.

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In 2002, dancers and other cast members from the 32-year run of American Bandstand reunited with host Dick Clark to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the show's local television debut.

Soap opera
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A soap opera, soap, or soapie, is a serial drama on television or radio that examines the lives of many characters, usually focusing on emotional relationships to the point of melodrama. The term soap opera originated from such dramas being typically sponsored by soap manufacturers in the past, the first serial considered to be a soap opera was Pai

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Publicity photo of Rosemary Prinz as Penny Hughes from As the World Turns.

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A scene from EastEnders on Christmas Day 1986, watched by 30.15 million viewers. The story, in which Den Watts served his wife Angie with divorce papers, was the highest-rated soap episode in British history, and the highest-rated program in the UK during the 1980s.

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One Life to Live
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Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature ethnically and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social issues. One Life to Live was expanded from 30 minutes to 45 minutes on July 26,1976, One Life to Live heavily focuses on the members and relationships of the Lord family. In 2002,

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Chicago (2002 film)
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Chicago is a 2002 American musical crime comedy film based on the musical of the same name, exploring the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Chicago during the Jazz Age. The film stars Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger and Richard Gere, Chicago centers on Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart, two murderesses who find themselves in jail toget

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Catherine Zeta-Jones
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Catherine Zeta-Jones, CBE is a Welsh actress. Born and raised in Swansea, Zeta-Jones aspired to be an actress from a young age, in her early teens, she played roles in the West End productions of the musicals Annie and Bugsy Malone. She studied musical theatre at the Arts Educational Schools, London and her screen debut came in the unsuccessful Fre

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At the 52nd Cannes Film Festival premiere of Entrapment, on May 1, 1999.

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At the red carpet of the 55th Drama Desk Awards ceremony on 23 May 2010.

Law & Order franchise
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Law & Order is a franchise composed of a number of related American television series created by Dick Wolf. They were originally broadcast on NBC, and all of deal with some aspect of the criminal justice system. Together, the series, its various spin-offs, the TV film. Shared people and resources in a fictional setting are the connecting links betw

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Law & Order: Criminal Intent
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Law & Order, Criminal Intent is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it was also primarily produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, the series premiered on September 30,2001, Criminal Intent focuses on the investigations of the Major Case Squad in a fictionalized version of the New Yo

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The cast of the tenth and final season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2011): Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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Law & Order, Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural, legal, crime drama television series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced. In the style of the original Law & Order, episodes are often ripped from the headlines or loosely based on crimes that have received media attention. Created and produced by Dick Wolf, t

Law & Order
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Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It originally aired on NBC and, in syndication, on cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13,1990, and completed its 20th, at the time of its cancellation, Law & Order was the longest-running crime

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Season 2 (1991–92), from left: Paul Sorvino, Moriarty, Noth and Brooks (This was also initially the cast of Season 3, until Sorvino left mid-way through the season and was replaced by Jerry Orbach)

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Season 6 (1995-96), from left: Benjamin Bratt, Sam Waterston, Jerry Orbach and Jill Hennessy (This was the first cast line-up to not feature any of the originals, aside from Steven Hill)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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CSI, Crime Scene Investigation is a procedural forensics crime drama television series that premiered on CBS October 6,2000. The series, starring William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Laurence Fishburne, Ted Danson, the series concluded on September 27,2015, after 15 seasons, with a feature-length finale titled Immortality. The team is led by Gil Gr

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

CSI: Miami
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CSI, Miami is an American police procedural drama television series that premiered on September 23,2002, on CBS. CSI, Miami is executive produced by Carol Mendelsohn, Anthony E. Zuiker, the series ended on April 8,2012, after 10 seasons and 232 episodes. In 2006, BBC News published an article stating that CSI, Miami was the worlds most popular tele

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The SkyOne headquarters regularly used as the police station.

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Rescue Me (U.S. TV series)
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Rescue Me is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on the FX on July 21,2004 and concluded on September 7,2011. The series focuses on the professional and personal lives of a group of New York City firefighters, the protagonist and focal point of the series is veteran New York City Firefighter Tommy Gavin. The series follows Tom

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Rescue Me

The Bronx Is Burning
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The Bronx Is Burning is a television drama that debuted on ESPN on July 10,2007, after the 2007 MLB Home Run Derby. It is an eight-episode mini-series adapted from Jonathan Mahlers best-selling book, Ladies and Gentlemen, the series is produced by ESPN Original Entertainment in conjunction with Tollin/Robbins Productions. Filming began on September

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The Bronx Is Burning

Without a Trace
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Without a Trace is an American police procedural television drama series that originally aired on CBS from September 26,2002, to May 19,2009. The series follows the cases of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City, on May 19,2009, CBS announced the cancellation of the series after seven seasons. Each episode followed the search for one i

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The CW Television Network
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Entertainment division of Time Warner, former majority owner of The WB Television Network. The CW name is a derived from the first letters of the names of its two parent corporations. The network made its debut on September 18,2006, after its two predecessors, UPN and The WB, respectively ceased independent operations on September 15 and 17 of that

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The CW

Gossip Girl (TV series)
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Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series, created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, originally ran on The CW for six seasons from September 19,2007, to December 17,2012. Narrated by the omniscient blogger Gossip Girl, voiced by Kristen Bell, the

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Gossip Girl filming in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, France

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Gossip Girl poster featuring critical review

New Amsterdam (TV series)
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New Amsterdam is an American television drama which aired for eight episodes in 2008 on Fox. The series was nominated for an Emmy for Main Title Design, John Amsterdam is an NYPD homicide detective who is 400 years old, but has the appearance of a 35-year-old. He was a Dutch soldier in Manhattan in the year 1642 when he stepped in front of a sword

In Treatment (U.S. TV series)
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The program, which stars Gabriel Byrne as Paul, debuted on January 28,2008, as a five-night-a-week series. The programs format, script and opening theme are based on, after winning critical acclaim and numerous honors, including Emmy, Golden Globe and Writers Guild awards, In Treatment returned for a second season, premiering on April 5,2009. The s

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In Treatment

The Americans (2013 TV series)
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The Americans is an American television period drama series created and produced by former CIA officer Joe Weisberg. On May 25,2016, FX set an end-date for the series by renewing it for a fifth and sixth season, the 13-episode fifth season premiered on March 7,2017. It will be followed by a 10-episode sixth and final season in 2018, the Americans,

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Members of the cast and crew at the 74th Annual Peabody Awards

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The Americans

The Good Wife
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The Good Wife is an American legal and political drama television series that aired on CBS from September 22,2009, to May 8,2016. The executive producers are Ridley Scott, Charles McDougall, and David W. Zucker, the Good Wife is a heavily serialized show featuring several story arcs that carry over several episodes, as well as stand-alone procedura

Pompton Plains, New Jersey
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Pequannock Township is a township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. Pompton has been cited by some sources to mean a place where they catch soft fish, New Jersey Monthly ranked Pequannock Township as the Best Bang for the Buck in New Jersey and 9th overall in its 2011 edition of Best Places to Live in New Jersey. It was then ranked 14th

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Pequannock Township highlighted in Morris County. Inset map: Morris County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.

Everyone Says I Love You
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Set in New York City, Venice and Paris, the film features singing by actors not usually known for their singing. The emotions of an extended family in Manhattan are followed in song from NY to Paris. Various friends, lovers, acquaintances, and relatives act, interact, and sing, in New York, Venice, the film takes classic songs and fits them into an

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Pipe Dream (film)
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Pipe Dream is a 2002 romantic comedy film, starring Mary-Louise Parker and Martin Donovan. The film was directed by John C, walsh, who previously wrote and directed the film Eds Next Move. In New York City, David, a plumber who is unsuccessful with women, creates a new identity as David Coppolberg, due to his good looks and unfamiliarity with film,

The Forgotten (2004 film)
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The Forgotten is a 2004 American science fiction psychological thriller drama film, directed by Joseph Ruben and starring Julianne Moore and Dominic West. The films plot revolves around a woman who thinks that she lost her son in a plane crash 14 months ago, only to wake up one morning and be told that she never had a son. All of her memories are i

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Alchemy (film)
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Alchemy is a 2005 film starring Tom Cavanagh and Sarah Chalke. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2005, the film did not have a wide release in movie theaters, so its big public premiere was on television, on ABC Family on October 7,2005. It was written and directed by Evan Oppenheimer, a university computer scientist tries to make a woma

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Alchemy

Mentor (film)
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Mentor is a 2006 drama film directed by David Langlitz and written by William Whitehurst, exploring the relationship between a Pulitzer Prize–winning author and his protégée. The film stars Rutger Hauer, Matthew Davis, Dagmara Dominczyk, Matthew Davis stars as Carter, introduced as a thirtysomething professor at a mediocre college. Julia is Sanford

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The Hoax
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The Hoax is a 2006 American drama film starring Richard Gere, directed by Swedish filmmaker Lasse Hallström. The screenplay by William Wheeler is based on the book of the title by Clifford Irving. It recounts Irvings elaborate hoax of publishing an autobiography of Howard Hughes that he helped write. The film was ranked as one of the Top 10 of the

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Gigantic (2008 film)
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Gigantic is a 2008 independent comedy film directed by Matt Aselton and starring Paul Dano, Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman, Edward Asner and Jane Alexander. The story was based on Aseltons childhood wish for his parents to adopt a Chinese baby, the film was shot in New York and Connecticut. It had its premiere at 2008s Toronto International Film Fes

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Tanner Hall (film)
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Tanner Hall is a 2009 independent drama film about four girls having their coming-of-age in boarding school. It was written and directed by Tatiana von Fürstenberg and Francesca Gregorini and it stars Rooney Mara, Georgia King, Brie Larson, Amy Ferguson, Tom Everett Scott, Amy Sedaris, Chris Kattan, and Shawn Pyfrom. Shy and studious, Fernanda is u

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Hope Springs (2012 film)
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Hope Springs is a 2012 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by David Frankel, written by Vanessa Taylor and starring Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones and Steve Carell. The film was released on August 8,2012 and it received generally positive reviews and the cast was praised for their performances. It was nominated for a Golden Globe, and won a

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Soul Man (TV series)
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Soul Man is an American sitcom starring Dan Aykroyd that aired on ABC from April 15,1997 to May 26,1998. A total of 25 half-hour episodes were produced two seasons. The series premiered on April 15,1997, and was picked up for a season of 22 half-hour episodes after only three episodes aired for the first season. Despite ranking 29th in its 2nd and

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Soul Man

Ed (TV series)
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Ed is an NBC television program co-produced by David Lettermans Worldwide Pants Incorporated, NBC Productions and Viacom Productions that aired from 2000 to 2004. Long term guest stars included John Slattery as Dennis Martino and Sabrina Lloyd as Frankie Hector, the show was created by executive producers Jon Beckerman and Rob Burnett. David Letter

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The main cast

Starved
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Starved is an FX television situation comedy that aired for one season of seven episodes in 2005. The series was about four friends who each suffer from eating disorders and its characters included those with bulimia, anorexia, and binge eating disorder. Eric Schaeffer created the show as well as writing, starring in and directing it, in addition t

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The main characters from left to right: Billie, Dan, Sam and Adam

Night Stalker (TV series)
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Night Stalker is a television series that ran for six weeks in fall 2005 on ABC in America. The series starred Stuart Townsend as Carl Kolchak, a reporter whose wife was murdered. Kolchak spends his time investigating other strange murders, believing they are linked in some way to his wifes murder and he is helped along the way by a fellow crime re

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Night Stalker DVD cover

Conviction (2006 TV series)
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Conviction is an American television drama on NBC that debuted as a mid-season replacement on Friday, March 3,2006. The cast includes Stephanie March reprising her Law & Order, Special Victims Unit role as Alexandra Cabot. In the series, Cabot returns to New York City and becomes a Bureau Chief ADA supervising a group of young, other cast members i

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Conviction: The Complete Series

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Conviction

Vanished
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Vanished is an American serial drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox. The series premiered on August 21,2006 on Fox and its last episode aired on November 10,2006. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, the series begins with the disappearance of the wife of a Georgia senator. The family of the woman, a pair of FBI agents. The show was created b

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Gossip Girl
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Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series, created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, originally ran on The CW for six seasons from September 19,2007, to December 17,2012. Narrated by the omniscient blogger Gossip Girl, voiced by Kristen Bell, the

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One of Fringe ‍ '​s location titles. In this example, from " Olivia ", the episode takes place in the parallel universe's version of Manhattan, which is spelled with only one "t". One key change in the parallel universe was that while the September 11 attacks occurred, the World Trade Center towers were not destroyed.

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The title card from seasons 1–2.

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Marketing posters used to promote the series featured one of the glyphs used in the show's interstitial, each being a twist on a common image. Pictured is a leaf with an embedded isosceles triangle.